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Paula Gândara

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Paula Gândara has been granted tenure and promoted to associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese. She has a doctorate in Hispanic literatures with a concentration on African and Brazilian studies. She has been a professor of Lusophone studies in the department of Spanish and Portuguese at Miami since 2003.

Gândara is the author of Construindo Germano Almeida (Nova Vega, 2008), a study on arguably one of the best writers of Lusophone Africa. The book was published with the support of the Luso-American Foundation and the National Library of Cape Verde. She is a poet, author of Horas de Língua, published in 2006 in Portugal by Quasi Edit. The work is being translated to English.

Gândara also is also a singer of Brazilian music, demonstrating the work of Brazilian poets as performed. Gândara’s present research focuses on the relations of Portugal, Brazil and Africa in the 19th century and on the status of women in 16th century Goa, a former Portuguese possession in India, often referred to as the Rome of Asia.

Date Published: 02/19/2009
Volume: 27 Number: 22